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Winger Patrick Eaves, the team's big acquisition at the trade deadline, missed the final four games of the Oilers series with a lower-body injury.

Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne, top left, blocks a shot by Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Kesler during the second period of Game 1 in the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference finals, Friday, May 12, 2017, in Anaheim, .

The Predators look to continue their remarkable run in the National Hockey League playoffs as they head into Anaheim for game two of the Western Conference final and with a victory here the Preds would jump out to an improbable 2-0 series lead heading back to Nashville for games three and four.

A day after scoring the overtime victor in Game 1 - his third goal in the last four games - a smiling James Neal said he's feeling confident about his game. Anaheim still rallied to force overtime on Hampus Lindholm's clutch third-period goal, but James Neal ended it for Nashville.

The Ducks did just that with a 2-1 home victory on Wednesday, ending a streak of five straight Game 7 losses for the franchise and four in a row at home. They were again outshot as they were in every game of the series, this time only 29-28, but Rust and Patric Hornqvist scored on Braden Holtby, and Fleury shut the door. As for the Predators, well, they have 618 total post-season games played and nearly a quarter of that is tied up in captain Mike Fisher. He started the postseason slowly, but is coming on, with three goals (and 18 shots on goal) in the past four games.

Fox Sports Tennessee will also be doing a first-ever playoff postgame show following the end of the game. "We've got to make good decisions". Just two days after finishing off Edmonton in the second round, Anaheim struggled to keep up at times with the more-rested Predators.

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Nashville looked even more dominant in the second period, in which the Ducks were presented with two power plays and got nothing on either, and precious little possession on the second. "We got better as the game went on".

Twelve months and two playoff rounds later, they came to Honda Center on Friday with the same problem. The Predators, meanwhile, haven't played since their series-clinching Game 6 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday.

"No guy will use the short turnaround from Game 7 as an excuse", Thompson said.

"They're going to be a good team for a long time", Cogliano said. And yet, what we saw in a back-and-forth Game 1 was encouraging for what promises to be an exciting and evenly matched series. Fiala had 11 goals in 54 regular-season games and two in these playoffs.

Nashville scored 17 more goals than the Ducks during the regular season, but also allowed 24 more.

The Preds beat the Ducks just last postseason. It was Silfverberg's 14th career playoff goal, tying him with Paul Kariya for fourth place on the all-time franchise list.

The Ducks hadn't led at home in regulation since Mark Letestu tied up Game 1 at 1-1 by scoring 6:22 into the first, but Ritchie changed that early in the third by firing a wrist shot under Cam Talbot's right arm.

Though Anaheim struck first, the first period belonged to Nashville. Watson one-timed a slap shot off a cross-ice feed from Johansen that deflected off Anaheim defenseman Sami Vatanen and into the net with Ekholm earning the additional assist.

Almost 3,000 kilometres away, Oilers fans watched as the Ducks pulled ahead in the third period. Anaheim and Nashville are meeting in the postseason for the third time, including the past two seasons.

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